VdoCipher is a secure video hosting platform that delivers Hollywood-grade DRM (Google Widevine and Apple FairPlay) encrypted streaming for e-learning and OTT businesses. Its server-side REST API handles video upload, media management, folders, dynamic viewer watermarking, and OTP/playbackInfo generation for authorized playback, all secured with an Apisecret authorization header.
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- Video
- Secure Video Hosting
- DRM
- Streaming
- E-Learning
- OTT
- Watermarking
- Created: 2026-07-01
- Modified: 2026-07-01
List, search, retrieve, edit, and delete videos in a VdoCipher account. Supports pagination, folder scoping, free-text query, and tag filtering over the video library.
- Human URL: https://www.vdocipher.com/docs/server/videomanagement/listing/
- Base URL:
https://dev.vdocipher.com/api
- Videos
- Media Management
- Listing
- Search
- Documentation
- API Reference
- OpenAPI — OpenAPI Specification
- Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
- Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
Obtain short-lived AWS S3 upload credentials (clientPayload) and a new videoId, then upload a source file directly to storage and poll transcoding status until the video is ready.
- Human URL: https://www.vdocipher.com/docs/server/upload/credentials/
- Base URL:
https://dev.vdocipher.com/api
- Upload
- Ingest
- Credentials
- Documentation
- API Reference
- OpenAPI — OpenAPI Specification
- Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
- Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
Generate a one-time otp and playbackInfo pair on the back end for a specific video so the DRM-protected player can authorize a single viewing session, with optional TTL, dynamic watermark, and IP/geo restrictions.
- Human URL: https://www.vdocipher.com/docs/server/playbackauth/otp/
- Base URL:
https://dev.vdocipher.com/api
- OTP
- Playback
- Authentication
- DRM
- Documentation
- API Reference
- OpenAPI — OpenAPI Specification
- Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
- Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
Create, list sub-folders under, and search a hierarchical folder tree (rooted at "root") used to organize the video library.
- Human URL: https://www.vdocipher.com/docs/server/videomanagement/folder-create/
- Base URL:
https://dev.vdocipher.com/api
- Folders
- Organization
- Documentation
- API Reference
- OpenAPI — OpenAPI Specification
- Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
- Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
Attach a dynamic, per-viewer annotation (text, RTMP, or image watermark) to a playback session via the OTP request annotate parameter, burning identifying marks such as the viewer email or IP over the DRM stream.
- Human URL: https://www.vdocipher.com/docs/server/playbackauth/otp/
- Base URL:
https://dev.vdocipher.com/api
- Watermark
- Annotation
- Security
- Documentation
- OpenAPI — OpenAPI Specification
- Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
- Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
Retrieve detailed metadata for a video and list its associated files - poster images, captions/subtitles, and rendition assets - plus list and search the tags applied across the library.
- Human URL: https://www.vdocipher.com/docs/server/videomanagement/files/list/
- Base URL:
https://dev.vdocipher.com/api
- Metadata
- Files
- Posters
- Captions
- Documentation
- API Reference
- OpenAPI — OpenAPI Specification
- Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
- Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
FN: Kin Lane Email: kin@apievangelist.com